Juan Carlos Galeano

Juan Carlos Galeano was born in the Amazon region of Colombia. He is the author of Baraja Inicial (poetry, 1986), Pollen and Rifles (1997) a book on the poetry of violence, and Amazonia (poetry, 2003), Sobre las cosas (poetry, 2010), and Amazonia y otros poemas (poetry, 2011), and Historias del viento (poetry, 2013). He teaches Latin American poetry and cultures of the Amazon basin at Florida State University.

Contact Dr. Galeano

Feel free to contact Juan Carlos Galeano about readings, workshops on Amazonian studies, Latin American poetry, and translation. There will be times when he is teaching and traveling in the Amazon basin and cannot quickly respond to e-mail, but he will answer as soon as possible.

Juan Carlos Galeano's Amazonia is both a poetic sequence and an amazing story… Rarely have the lyric and the narrative, reality and imagination, history and myth, combined so succesfully to make such an original, complex and, at the same time, immensely readable and spellbinding literary work.”

Charles Simic

His poetry, inspired by Amazonian cosmologies and the modern world, has been published internationally and translated into French, English, Portuguese, and German. It has been anthologized in a CD-ROM titled Poesía Colombiana (four centuries of Colombian poetry) produced by Casa Silva in Colombia, and in several anthologies in Latin America.

Juan Carlos Galeano is the director of the Service/Learning program Journey Into Amazonia, a summer program in Iquitos, Peruvian Amazon. This is a program designed for students who would like to experience life in the Amazon while working in service learning fieldwork.